I think it would make more sense to run Samba and similar services on a separate VM. I realize that many embedded systems don't support virtualization but there are reasonable options now like Intel Atom S1200 family.
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Vick Khera <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Luiz Gustavo Costa < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I have worked in the Samba4 package for pfsense, not only act as a >> domain member, but also act as a domain controller and i see this as an >> opportunity to extend the pfsense to be more than a firewall and act as >> a new service on the network in a new installation in another hardware >> to act as a domain controller in Active Directory with power tools >> native firewall. >> > > This just seems like a really bad idea to add such non-core functionality > to the firewall. If your intent is to use a separate appliance as your SMB > file server/controller and disable the firewall features on it, then I > would suggest looking at something like FreeNAS. > > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > >
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